Mr. Warren Buffett is known to
have once exclaimed, 'The highest rates of return I've ever achieved were in
the 1950s. I killed the Dow. You ought to see the numbers.'

And it's true. Mr. Buffett's best years, in terms of percentage
returns, were is initial years.

What exactly were the numbers?

Well, Mr. Buffett formed the Mr.Buffett Partnership in 1957, which
was his investment vehicle to manage his and others' money. He shut the
partnership in 1969.

Over this thirteen-year period, Mr.Buffett's partnership earned
a compounded annual return of 29.5% and a cumulative return of 2,795%. This
compares to benchmark returns from the Dow Jones Industrial Average of 7.4%
annually and 153% cumulatively over the same period.

As Mr.Buffett said, he killed the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

But there's anothervalue investorwho surpassed even Mr. Buffett's record around that
time. And that too, over a longer period than the Mr. Buffett Partnership.

His name was Mr. Rick Guerin, and the name of his investment
vehicle - Pacific Partners. Rick, in the nineteen years from 1965 to 1983, against
a cumulative gain of 316% for the benchmark S&P 500, came off with 22,200%.
Compounded on an annual basis, this comes to 32.9% versus 7.8% for the
benchmark S&P.

Rick was a pal of Mr. Charlie Munger and fortunately lacked a
business school education. In other words, he hadn't had the 'efficient market
hypothesis' shoved down his throat. He was instead a math major at USC and then
went to work as a salesman for IBM for a while. Soon after Mr. Buffett met Mr. Charlie,
Charlie got to Rick.

Sadly, not much is known about Mr. Rick and the specific style of
value investing he used to achieve his mind-boggling results. To our dismay,
his exact methods remain shrouded in mystery.

Back home in India, we too have many not-so-well-known
investors and fund managers who have been racking up phenomenal returns for
their investors. Most of their methods too remain under wraps.

Luckily for us, my colleagues Mr. Rohan and Mr. Kunal have spent
months working on their 'superinvestor project'. They've travelled much of
India to meet with and pick the brains of these relatively unknown
superinvestors.

And now they've published their conversations - along with
their own detailed notes and takeaways from these rare interviews - in an
exclusive ebook.